Redressing Gendered Health Inequalities of Displaced Women and Girls
Arts-based methodologies are becoming increasingly popular within migration research, valued for their potential to traverse and transcend cultural, linguistic and academic borders; to facilitate more egalitarian research; and to provide richer and multi-layered data regarding the lived experiences of people on the move (O’Neill, 2011; Oliveira, 2019; Jeffery et al, 2019). Keen to involve migrant […]
The police killed Victoria Salazar in Tulum, Mexico, on 27 March 2021, in a very brutal and very public way. Victoria, like many other Central American migrant and refugee women, fled her home country El Salvador precisely because of violence. This just adds to the tragic nature of her killing. The case has made […]
The Quintana Roo Feminist Network’s 94-day sit-in at the State Congress recently came to an end after legislators agreed to hold a vote on legalisation of abortion. Although that vote was lost, the decision will allow the movement to take the fight to the Supreme Court, which could have major ramifications for sexual and reproductive […]
Photography Prize for Pictures Taken during ReGHID Fieldwork Activities The Institute for Global Development at the University of Manchester launched in May 2021 a contest called Migration in Times of a Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean calling for photographs that portrayed the lives of migrants and/or refugees in South America during the […]
CONTEXTO: COVID-19 AFECTA DESPROPORCIONADAMENTE A MIGRANTES EN AMÉRICA LATINA Los países de Centro y Sudámerica han visto un crecimiento de flujos migratorios y de refugiados sin precedente. Desde 2015, alrededor de 5 millones de refugiados y migrantes Venezolanos y medio millón provenientes de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras huyeron a países vecinos (1,2). La migración forzada […]
CONTEXT: MIGRANTS AFFECTED DISPROPORTIONATELY BY COVID-19 ACROSS LATIN AMERICA Central and South American countries have experienced an unprecedented flow of refugees and migrants with an estimated 5 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants and half a million from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras fleeing to neighbouring countries since 2015 (1,2). Forced migration in these countries is […]
As emergências sanitárias exacerbam quase todas as formas de injustiça social no Sul Global. Preconceitos estatais, falhas de governança e respostas políticas inadequadas e inapropriadas deixam legados que podem ser tão graves quanto a própria doença. Em situações de crise, o fornecimento de serviços públicos e o acesso a serviços de saúde e de bem-estar […]
Las emergencias sanitarias exacerban casi todas las formas de injusticia social en el Sur Global. Los prejuicios estatales, las fallas de gobernanza y las respuestas políticas inadecuadas e inapropiadas dejan legados que pueden ser tan graves como la enfermedad misma. En situaciones de crisis, la provisión de servicios públicos y el acceso a los servicios […]
First webinar in the series successfully delivered The series of webinars organised by our co-investigators at FLACSO Honduras got off to a great start on the 24th of September 2020. Pia Riggirozzi, ReGHID Principal investigator, opened the first session where experts in the field shared their insights about the challenges posed by the feminization of […]
Redressing Gendered Health Inequalities of Displaced Women and Girls in Contexts of Protracted Crisis in Central and South America (ReGHID) is an interdisciplinary and international consortium that builds new research and advocacy for more effective and inclusive attention to the sexual and reproductive health needs and rights for displaced women and adolescent girls from Central […]